One morning he received a letter from Hamburg. The letter was signed by Mr. Bubis, the great editor, and in it he said flattering things, or at least flattering things could be read between the lines, about Lüdicke, a work he would like to publish, that is, of course, if Mr. Benno von Archimboldi didn’t already have a publisher, in which case he would be very sorry, because the novel wasn’t lacking in merit and was, in a certain sense, rather original, in any case, it was a book that he, Mr. Bubis, had read with great interest, a book he felt he could take a gamble on, although such was the
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